#chronological dracula

[mandiminimojo]

Oh no, he got hot!

#dracula daily #Dracula #confession I downloaded and read the whole book back in may and have been sitting on this comic for a while #it’s a different experience to read it chronologically tho

[gremlin-pattie]

I was worried that nobody would follow Dracula Daily this year since it was so popular last year, but it seems like I’m not the only one who missed it the first time, and some people just want to reread it. Excited to participate this time.

#i read dracula for a class while dracula daily was going on #awhile after it started actually #so now i have the background knowledge #it will be interesting to see how the story feels different in chronological order #dracula #dracula daily

[yousaytomato]

reading Dracula like this is so funny because it really frames the Renfield plot as the comedic relief B-plot

Jonathan is standing over the terrifying body of Dracula, shovel in hand, he puts all his might into striking Dracula but at the last second falters, leaving instead a deep cut in the forehead. There is no hope for him now.

SMASH CUT to Seward and Renfield, Renfield catches a giant fly, holds it for a few seconds and then swiftly eats it, Seward looks on in curious silence.

#woes of emily #Dracula daily july 1 #Dracula daily #not to say that i think so called asylums should be comic relief #which is such a trope. but. come on #the way we went back and forth is the unintended comedy of this chronological reading #maybe its not clear to people reading it like this for the first time but #all the jonathan stuff is together. then the mina and Lucy stuff and THEN renfield and seward #all in their own chunks. and then it becomes more mixed later on

[this-is-a-name-dont-worry]

it's kinda surprising that bram stoker didn't intend for his story to be read chronologically, because it works very well. Yes, the contrast between Jonathan's horror and Lucy's romcom is funny, but it also really emphasises how alone Jonathan is. You see him getting deeper and deeper into the horror, and you're told he can't tell anything to anyone, and then you cut to Lucy and Mina, whose biggest issue is Lucy and her three proposals, none of them worried in the slightest about Jonathan, because, why would they? They didn't receive any bad news.

Switching the pov shows us how Jonathan is all alone in this situation, and really makes it clear that if he was to die, no one would know the true reason.

#dracula daily #jonathan harker #mina harker #you know 'show dont tell'? #thats what reading in chronological order does #also today's update with jonathan is made even more crushing by the contrast #all the characters on the girls sides are communicating about what's going on #and then you cut to jonathan unable to communicate #seeing how hood things are supposed to be normally really helps reinforcing how bad things are for jonathan

[picklepie888]

I love how the genre of Dracula keeps shifting between horror, rom-com, psychological thriller, or western depending on which character's pov we're reading.

#dracula daily #dracula #it's so fun reading the story in chronological order with the povs shifting #one minute you got jonathan contemplating how he's gonna escape a vampire and the next you got harem anime shenanigans with lucy #then there's whatever's going on with that renfield fellow #then they threw in a cowboy #and some guy named arthur #jonathan harker #lucy westenra #jack seward #quincey p morris

[mj1343]

As the Dracula posting begins again I will remind the internet that Dracula is not written in chronological order and by doing this daily Dracula stuff you are, for better or worse or both at times, getting a different experience than the original novel with the suspense and buildup completely different than the book

Also I just. Recommend reading the book. It’s still a rlly good novel and you can see how the authors intended order of events. And. You don’t have to wait for months to read a new page. Nodnod

#dracula daily #dracula #I have mixed feelings about Dracula daily #I think it is a cute idea #that tumblr really #went insane with #you are experiencing the story completely differently than originally intended #that feels wierd to me specifically #I could not do that #but I am not going to stop you from doing it #just know you are not getting Dracula the novel #you are getting Dracula as told chronologically

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

For those who haven’t read the book in its original order: The story of the Demeter in the book starts after you know its ultimate fate. So it is a story where you already know the ending and are reading to see how the crew ended up in the state that they did.

Arguably Dracula Daily is providing a different experience by leaving it open ended, so we don’t know exactly what is going to happen to the crew. It adds to the mystery and horror of the whole journey.

#dracula #dracula daily #reminder that the book is only sort of chronological and pieces are being moved around.

[akasanata]

Obviously the dates are a disaster, but it's implied Renfield was in a straightjacket for at least one week?

#I prefer what the chronological order gives us that it was only one night #Dracula Daily

[lovely-v]

Mina would’ve loved Dracula Daily

#veesaysthings #dracula daily #Dracula spoilers #just got around to reading today’s I know I’m late to the party #but this was. weirdly fourth wall break-y? unintentionally of course bc Stoker didn’t put it in chronological order #but still I was like ha! that’s exactly what Matt’s doing!

[heroofthreefaces]

“call me Ishmael” I’ll call you late-with-your-weekly-update is what I’ll call you

#whale weekly #i looked at the site #it's ''weekly'' in the same way dracula daily was ''daily'' #which is to say sometimes there's no entry depending on the story chronology #same as the lotr thing i'm doing #where right now we're smack in the middle of a two month hiatus #lotrh3f

[tangents-within-tangents]

Alright small, not that important PSA since I keep seeing people say that Dracula is set in 1897: Books don’t have to/usually don’t take place when they were published.

The year is never stated in the text so short answer is we don’t necessarily know what year Dracula takes place, long answer is it’s probably 1893, longer answer is it’s more complicated than that, but either way it’s almost definitely not 1897

#dracula #dracula timeline #dracula daily #re: dracula #literature #I spent a week mapping out the chronological timeline of events and I ended up more confused lol rip

[chadlesbianjasontodd]

shout-out to matt kirkland for dailying this dracula in a perfect curve of an emotional arc

#he unchronologicalled his chronological order inside of itself to make today hit its hardest!!! #dracula daily

[mariocki]

An outrageously hairy Patrick Troughton supports the forces of darkness (or does he...?) as sinister servant Klove in Scars of Dracula (1970)

#fave spotting #patrick troughton #scars of dracula #doctor who #classic doctor who #two #hammer films #hammer horror #1970 #driving me crazy that this is chronologically so close to his time on DW #like a year earlier he'd been doing The War Games and then his first film post Who he's just.. utterly transformed #perhaps that's what appealed to him? #anyway he's having the time of his life as the creature like Klove‚ scuttling about the castle being ghastly #and whistling happy little tunes as he dismembers corpses #Scars was a bit of a mess‚ both behind the scenes and in the finished product‚ and neither Lee nor director Roy Ward Baker had a #particularly happy time on the shoot and neither spoke too fondly of the project in later life; if anybody did have fun my money's on Pat #who honestly just seems to be enjoying himself immensely being thoroughly despicable

[yousaytomato]

I need everyone reading Dracula for the first time via Dracula Daily to know that in the actual order of the book, today's newspaper clipping comes before the Log of the Demeter, and the first time I read it I was convinced that the corpse at the helm was our boy Jonathan

#especially because it comes after a 2 chapter silence from Jonathan #full of mina diary entries about 'no news from jonathan....' #Dracula daily #Dracula daily August 8 #Dracula spoilers #Just in case #like i think having the log first makes it clear what has happened but....yeah #its so neat how Mina's diary entry links up even though it's actually a couple chapters later ! #i wonder if stoker wrote it more chronologically and then moved it around after? #woes of emily

[galacticneighbor]

So 100 page tabs wasn't enough for all the date changes in Dracula,

#i should b good until october and it seems almost entirely chronological at that point #also!! tab colors MOSTLY match the pov until i started to run out #mina's ran out first!! #dracula daily

[aguacerotropical]

“She doesn't know her mind a bit; she seems to see the storm coming, but can't decide whether to run up north in the open, or to put in here”

cant help but feel that that passage doesn’t just refer to the ship, but also how Mina’s is dealing with the realization that Jonathan might not come back (or, if he does, unrecognizable).

#dracula #daily dracula #dracula daily #Also i love love love the chronological format like we rly DO understand Mina’s desperation as Jonathan does not respond or return